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...able to bring out "budding genius." Genius has a habit of cutting across barriers, of refusing to be classified. The great artist or poet who failed at school is a familiar figure. Even if a classification is made specially to fit the unusual student, there will be a rub somewhere. A school for talent may fare well. A school for genius amounts to a contradiction in terms...
Therefore the commission suggested (Parliament must vote on all such matters) that thoroughgoing assent to the Thirty-Nine Articles no longer be required of priestly candidates. In other words the commission would chip and rub smooth the 39-faceted Rock of the Church of England, to ease the Anglican way to Heaven...
...grown up he owns or controls the whole Black River Valley. The local aristocracy will not accept him, but he scorns them; it is his ambition to found his own line. His sons are a disappointment: Henry, the elder, is bookish, an Abolitionist to boot. He and his father rub each other the wrong way. Bascom is almost too much like the old man for his peace of mind: many a farmer husband hates him, and with reason. When Henry brings home his wife Rose from Boston, the old man takes to her at once; so does Bascom. When...
...other Sikhs had tried to shield him, but now, shouting their defiance and their determination to die rather than move, they wiped away the blood streaming from his mouth. Hysterical Hindus rushed to him bearing cakes of ice to rub the contusions over his brown eyes. The Sikh gave me a bloody smile-and stood up for more...
...Commission started an inquiry, summoned Bombo, who said Perry, his own second, was the man who threw the towel, that Perry had threatened to kill him if he did not "lie down" for Camera. Bombo further said that Camera's crowd had bribed Bombo's seconds to rub irritants into Bombo's eyes and choke him between rounds. The California Commission revoked Camera's license-to-fight indefinitely. New York revoked it permanently...